History of the world wide web timeline dates back to 1910

The history of the world wide web goes back quite a ways and has been documented countless times, each take slightly varied from the last. It may even go back longer than you may think. An interesting timeline has been...

Did you notice that most of the innovation happened due to the absence of patents (or reasonable patents)?

What would happen if people like Douglas Engelbart in 1968 decided to patent mouse, ?what you see is what you get? editing, text and graphics displayed on a single screen, shared-screen videoconferencing, outlining, windows, version control, context-sensitive help, hyperlinks and computer generated slides?